Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-11-04
BONORED THEMSELVES.
Governor Gordon Gives His Opinion
About the Enthusiastic Reception
Given JEFF Davis at Macon.
The Old Veterans Would Have Been Con
tsmptibIs Had They Not Given the Poor
Old Man Their Sympathics.

CINCINNATI OHIO, OCb, ZJ--USH6EA4
John B. Gordon, Governor of Georgia,
made his first speech in Ohio last night
in the Democratic state campaign. It
WAS 1t the Highland House esplenade to
an immense audience. indicating the
claim of the ex-rebels' loyalty he said:
''In the city of Augusta on an occasion
when we met to do honor to our dead
comrades, and to cover them with ira
grant flowers, said this, pointing TO the
banner of my country which hung over
head: Here hangs above Us the flag Of
this Union, let Us honor it as an emblem
Of freedom, of equality, and of union, re-
membering that there is not star on it.
blue fold which is not made
brighter by the light re-
fiected from our southern skies, not
s white line in its folds but is made whittier
and pHrer by that soHth's incorruptible
record in Office, not one Of its crimson
stripes that is not deeper and richer from
the southern blood shed IN its defense in
every war with foreign powers l am
not here to talk new doctrines, want to
say to You again that before the guns had
closed their terrible roar at Appoma:toI
l began this style of talk, and in the south,
in the senate, in Boston, in Charleston,
across the Atlantic, everywhere 1 haVe
been, appealing for peace and unity End
concord as the purest legacy for our
children to inherit" Applause.
CINCINNATI, OHIO, oct. 29.-In his
speech here last night Gov -rnor Gordon
Of Georgia alluded to the reception Of
Jefferson Davis at Macon IS follows:
Otis charged that we cheered JEFF Davis.
Does that mean going TO war agaln?
Suppose we turned our backs on that
| broken down old ran! What did he do
that hadn't done? l don't think that l
shot anybody, but I tried pretty hard.
| You might ask me to turn g cold
| shoulder on nv wife. She followed
me to camp, shared my dangers even to
the picket, and in time Of danger in bat
tie. l owe it to her tender nursing that
my life WAS spared me. Why should l
hate her? If we should turn our bsck on
that man, refuse him our sympathies, we
would merit the scorn of every man in
this audience, and you would feel ALSO
lutte contempt for Us. When JEFF Davis
/ left the United States Senate ne
left it rich with regret and
full OF political honors. For our
sakes he became poor and debsrred for
ever from political honors in his own
country. He fingers to-day with broken
health and hardly place TO lay him
down, dragging after him his wounded
limbs What would you think OF me II
l said go hence, have no use for you.
am not going TO do it. I would have
contempt for General Morgon, who sat
on the stage, il he went back on the
grand old name of Abraham Lincoln
Put yourself in the other fellows place.
! IL was my fortune few weeks ago to
take my place in the celebration of the
| option of the constitution, Snd when
Georgia had taken her part Twas proud SIS
| stood in the streets to see the shattered
remains of the army bearing the shattered
remains of the old flags as they were
viewed by that October light amid the
shouts of 10000 throats. l felt that
| knew the feeling that was pu!sating' II
the veins Of the grand men, remnants Of
the Grand Army CT the Republic. Why
shouldn't I? They were conseCrated &c
q cause which 10 those who gathered
around them was as holy as honor end
truth. l would have no faith in home
and liberty if those men did not love theil
old flags. Let US get out of the universe
when hate of the south is called loyalty
am going to show that children should
love their flags. That man is better
who has the nerve to do jus
tice whatever il costs. There is
an honor in carrying those old fsgs
They, too, were woven by patriotic hands
of southern women. They were delivered
to husbands and brothers, consecrated by
tears and tears. Some were rent with
bullets, blackened with gunpowder and
redeemed with the blood of the brave
Don't we build monuments to the Con
federates? Why, General Grant, the
greatest general of the Union army, sale
ne was willing to share in the dedication
Of 8 monument TO the Confederate dead
There isn't good sense in it, and the men
who try to stir your passions don't de-
serve your vote. You saw in some o
the rebel flags. This is the truth. l wa!
there. There was in ell OF that grea
meeting at Macon dozen Confederate
flags and $4,000 of the stars GnC
stripes, snd yet some newspapers are 81
color Blind that they could not see 81,
but rebel flags, and yet the very carriag
that bore Jefferson Davis, and the horse
that drew him, were covered with Uniol
flags. The house that he was in wa
covered with them so as TO almost blint
him. Speeches were made, and leade
lection to the wife, snd the great china.
of it was that the Ehion was rehsbitete,
on irmer bases than eve1.
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